Szaferohypha Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura, 2024

Piątek, Marcin, Stryjak-Bogacka, Monika & Czachura, Paweł, 2024, Emended Neodactylariales (Dothideomycetes): Szaferohypha gen. nov. and phylogenetically related genera, MycoKeys 111, pp. 211-228 : 211-228

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/mycokeys.111.139620

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14561983

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3497AF02-D430-58CD-9593-E0740167931A

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scientific name

Szaferohypha Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura
status

gen. nov.

Szaferohypha Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura gen. nov.

Etymology.

Named after Polish botanist and palaeobotanist Professor Władysław Szafer (1886–1970), the first director of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Description.

Colonies erumpent, spreading, umbonate, grayish-brown, with a velvety surface caused by abundant aerial mycelium, margin undulate. Mycelium composed of branched, septate, hyaline, subhyaline, pale brown, or brown, smooth or verrucose, usually thick-walled hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, reduced to conidiogenous cells, rarely macronematous. Conidiogenous cells terminal, rarely lateral, monoblastic, hyaline, subhyaline, pale brown, or brown. Conidia globose, subglobose, rarely broadly ellipsoid, hyaline, subhyaline, or brown, aseptate, rarely with 1–2 septa or muriformly septate, smooth or finely verrucose, thick-walled, sometimes produced intercalary.

Type species.

Szaferohypha enigmatica Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura .